A new report from James Bonta and D.A. Andrews, Risk-Need-Responsivity Model for Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation , reviews the evolution of offender assessment instruments and rehabilitation theories. Looking at the role of the risk-need-responsivity model, the authors explain "why some interventions work and others do not."

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